A thin flexible strip of material in roll form, having a magnetic coating on one surface upon which is recorded the sequence of instructions required by a computer for solving a particular problem. It is stored in a cartridge, cassette, or reel which is designed to be inserted into the tape transport of a computer. See also DISK PROGRAM, AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING. For disks or tapes haivng no prerecorded data, see DISK, FLEXIBLE and TAPE, ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING.